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Sam Taylor-Wood: A Portrayal of Moments with Crying Men
Sam Taylor-Wood is an English experimental photographer and filmmaker. "Crying Men" is her treatise about sadness. It has very recently been "discovered" in the United States and is attracting considerable attention.
Her series of photographs in "Crying Men" attempts to capture an unusual liminal space, the moment between the real and the unreal, the imitation and the authentic. By her deliberate use of celebrity actors as models, the viewer is led to wonder whether and to what degree their tears of sadness (and therefore their emotions) are genuine.
This article presents great photographs, a photo-gallery of all the "Crying Men" portraits and three videos. The videos include a video-slideshow of the "Crying Men" photographs and Taylor-Wood's short avant-garde film, "Pieta", which stars Robert Downey, Jr. Sam Taylor-Wood is an English experimental photographer and filmmaker. "Crying Men" is her treatise about sadness. It has ... more -
Robert Downey, Jr: The Iron Man returns from the Dark Side
This article is a tribute to Robert Downey Jr, and to his successful battle to return from the self-destructive dark edge. It includes a number of wonderful photographs, two music videos ("I Want Love" and "Smile" from "Chaplin"), two Sam Taylor-Wood experimental films in which Downey appears ("Pieta" and "Men Crying"), and the official "Iron Main" trailer. In addition, the article presents music audio and an outstanding photo-gallery.
Please have a look and enjoy yourselves!! This article is a tribute to Robert Downey Jr, and to his successful battle to return from the self-destructive dark edge. It include... more -
Sam Taylor-Wood: portraits of crying men
"Crying Men" is Sam Taylor-Wood's experimental work based upon a series of photographs of celebrity actors crying, her treatise on the theme of sadness. This composition includes photographs, two videos on "Men Crying," her experimental video "Pieta," and the Elton John music video "I Want Love," which was produced by Sam Taylor-Wood, the acclaimed avant-garde English artist. "Crying Men" is Sam Taylor-Wood's experimental work based upon a series of photographs of celebrity actors crying, her ... more
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Sam Taylor-Wood: "Still Life" and the Acceptance of Mortality
Sam Taylor-Wood is a contemporary artist who works mostly in avant-garde video, video installations and photography. She has been identified as one of the leading figures in the younger British Artist Group. Sam Taylor-Wood’s video installations and photographs depict human dramas, isolated emotional situations, and people shown in solitary, awkward, or vulnerable moments. Her works have often featured celebrity friends, including Elton John, Robert Downey Jr., David Beckham and The Pet Shop Boys.
Still Life (2001) has been said to be one of the most classical works in contemporary art. It is part of a classical genre that contains symbols of change or death as a reminder of their inevitability. The short film carved a permanent record for itself in art history with hardly any commentary, confronting the vanity of worldly things through its focus upon the often subtle signs of elapsing time and decay.
This article includes photographs and Taylor-Wood's strangely beautiful, but also powerfully haunting video. Sam Taylor-Wood is a contemporary artist who works mostly in avant-garde video, video installations and photography. She has been ide... more -
Portrait of the artist Sam Taylor-Wood
The photographer and video artist exploded with the other Young British Artists in the '90s, married Jay Jopling (the owner of the White Cube gallery in Hoxton Square, London) and has spent the rest of her career hanging out and depicting the iconic and infamous. With video. The photographer and video artist exploded with the other Young British Artists in the '90s, married Jay Jopling (the owner of th... more
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